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I think it's the idea of keeping a moving target

I change mine because I'm forced to, and I do the same thing everybody else in that situation does: I work sequentially: password1, password2, password3, etc. I know that's not the intent, but I have to remember 9 passwords for work. I'll be darned if I'm going to make it hard on myself.

That's the problem...

People have limited patience with security.Heck, I know that logging in as admin isn't safe for day to day stuff, but I still can't get used to not being able to do those three semi-rare things that require admin status without *gasp* changing users for half an hour.But focusing on a few meaningful measures and hammering them in loud enough, people could learn to use at least different security levels of passwords. To have f.ex. one unique for banking, one unique for official crap, one for low-security activities and one for potential risk activities. That falls within the 3+2 range of different things people can remember, and it makes a big difference both over low-difficulty passwords and over having the same passwords for critical and risky/lowsec activities.

I have lots of patience with security

My passwords are all based on a strong phrase that includes case changes, numbers, and special characters and gets a 71% from <a href="http://www.passwordmeter.com/">Password Meter</a>. All the passwords based on that phrase (except two) score 90% or better. The two exceptions do not allow me to use the entire phrase because they are limited to 8 alphanumeric characters, but they are only valid inside a physically secured area.

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